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Look up the license-plate abbreviation for every province and city in China, plus the specific region each trailing letter code belongs to.
When you see license plates like "Yue B", "Chuan A" on the road, are you curious about which specific city they come from? This tool provides you with accurate answers. The license plate code lookup tool aims to map the combination of the first Chinese character (provincial-level administrative region abbreviation) of China's motor vehicle license plates and the first English letter that follows to their officially registered specific city or region. A license plate "plate number" is composed of an abbreviation and a letter, and is the core identifier of the vehicle's registration location. This tool helps users quickly locate and understand the geographical attribution behind these codes through a structured data table.
Question: How do I query which location the "Yue B" license plate belongs to?
Answer: Yue B represents Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. You only need to click on "Yue" in the navigation bar, then find the "Region" information corresponding to "Yue B" in the Guangdong Province table.
Question: What do the license plate abbreviation and the following letter represent separately? Is the data source reliable?
Answer: The license plate abbreviation represents the provincial-level administrative region where the vehicle is registered (for example, "Yue" represents Guangdong), and the letter that follows usually represents a prefecture-level city within that province (with "A" typically being the provincial capital). This tool's data is compiled based on the license plate encoding rules published by the Ministry of Public Security Traffic Management Bureau and local vehicle management offices, but please note that specific allocations may be updated due to policy adjustments. It is recommended to refer to the latest official announcements.
This tool is an information query tool, and the results are for reference only. License plate encoding rules may be updated due to administrative divisions adjustments or policy changes. For actual attribution, please refer to the latest announcements from traffic management departments. Some letters (such as "O", "I" are usually prohibited) or specific combinations (such as "Yue Z" for vehicles entering the mainland from Hong Kong and Macau) have special meanings, which have been marked accordingly in the tool. This tool does not handle personal license plate number queries; all data are public regional encoding rules.
For traffic professionals, geography enthusiasts, or content creators, correctly interpreting license plate codes is a fundamental skill. In a typical license plate number "Zhe A·12345", "Zhe" is the abbreviation for Zhejiang Province, and "A" typically represents the provincial capital Hangzhou. Understanding this encoding system helps quickly determine the general origin of a vehicle. For example, when you see "Shan U", you know it belongs to Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province (Shan A is Xi'an, some newly added number segments use U). Please note that special license plate systems for the military, armed police, etc. are not included in these civilian encoding rules. If you need to perform batch verification of license plate attribution or data integration, it is recommended to regularly check the number segment announcements on the official websites of local vehicle management offices to obtain the most accurate and current information.
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